exploring-data-catalog
exploring data catalog
What it does
- You MUST ask for the target AWS region upfront if not provided
- You MUST support a single optional argument: search term, catalog name, database name, S3 path, or table name
- You MUST accept the argument as direct input or a pointer to a file containing the spec
- You MUST confirm the scope (full landscape vs. targeted deep dive) before making API calls
- You MUST respect the user's decision to abort at any step
- You MUST verify AWS MCP server tools are available (awscallaws, awssearchdocumentation) and fall back to AWS CLI if not
- You MUST confirm credentials are valid: aws sts get-caller-identity
Requirements & configuration
- (Steps 3-5) when SearchAssets returns nothing, the audit needs exhaustive coverage, or the
- Always report catalog types — users need to know where data lives
- | get-databases/get-tables fails with catalog-id | Default catalog requires omit or account ID | Omit --catalog-id or pass account ID for the default catalog |
Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23
exploring-data-catalog FAQ
What does the exploring-data-catalog skill do?
>- Full inventory and audit of AWS Glue Data Catalog assets across S3 Tables, Redshift-federated, and remote Iceberg catalogs. Triggers on: inventory the catalog, audit databases, list all tables, catalog overview, data landscape, enumerate catalogs, data inventory, search the catalog. Do NOT use for finding specific data (use finding-data-lake-assets), running queries (use querying-data-lake), or creating tables (use creating-data-lake-table). You MUST ask for the target AWS region upfront if not provided You MUST support a single optional argument: search term, catalog name, database name, S3 path, or table name
What does exploring-data-catalog require?
(Steps 3-5) when SearchAssets returns nothing, the audit needs exhaustive coverage, or the Always report catalog types — users need to know where data lives | get-databases/get-tables fails with catalog-id | Default catalog requires omit or account ID | Omit --catalog-id or pass account ID for the default catalog |
How do I install exploring-data-catalog?
Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill exploring-data-catalog --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.
Maintain exploring-data-catalog?
Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.
[exploring-data-catalog on getagentictools](https://getagentictools.com/skills/aws-agent-toolkit-for-aws-exploring-data-catalog?ref=badge) npx agentictools info skills/aws-agent-toolkit-for-aws-exploring-data-catalog The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.
